This is the second most important taboo. Never use your chopsticks to pass something to someone from chopsticks to chopsticks. This is only ever done as part of the ritual during Buddhist funerals. After the body of a deceased person is cremated, the whole family handles the bones by passing them from chopsticks to chopsticks.
In many countries, children are taught not to play with their food. It is the same in Japan, but also with chopsticks. Do not use them as drumsticks or swords.
Do not wave your chopsticks around above the plates. This is easy to end up doing, as you are deciding which dish to take from. It is best to first decide what you want to eat next, and then put your chopsticks in motion. When eating with other people, do not eat directly from the shared plates. Put food in your small personal plate, then eat.
With all that said, here's an image of the process! Place first chopstick between pointer finger and thumb; balance it on ring finger. Place second chopstick between pointer finger and thumb; rest it on middle finger.
Use thumb, pointer and middle fingers to grasp the second chopstick firmly. Index and middle fingers do the lifting.
Use index and middle fingers to close chopsticks over food. When moving the chopsticks, a point to consider is that it is the top chopstick that should be moving, while the bottom should generally be still.
If performed properly, you should be able to grasp small objects such as beans or grains of rice one at a time. In Japan it is also considered bad manners to pass food from chopstick to chopstick, or leave them stuck into a bowl of rice, as both of these actions are associated with funeral customs.
Generally speaking, you should keep chopsticks in a parallel position, and avoid crossing them. Shun-no Washoku-to Nabe Nihonshugenkasakagura Uenohkachimachiten. Step 3: Eat! Using chopsticks is a practice of finding the perfect combination of balance and pressure to pick up your food, and this combination changes from one piece to the next.
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Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. I will introduce different types of chopsticks in my instructions. The process of learning how to use chopsticks might just take you 10 minutes, but it will take you a couple days or a couple months to get used to it. There are several types of chopsticks. Warning : those colors contain some carcinogenic martial like the heavy metal lead and the organic solvent benzene.
Chopsticks make of metal like silver chopsticks are heavy and have a bad hand grip. Chopsticks make of bone like ivory chopsticks have a perfect hand grip, but feel heavy. Bamboo and wood are the best materials of making chopsticks, but bamboo chopsticks would cause microbial contamination.
It needs to be cleaned very often. Position your hand like you are holding an egg. Have the board side of the chopstick lay on the connection area between your thumb and your index finger. Use the top part of your ring finger, your thumb knuckle and the connect area between your thumb and your index finger to perform like a lever.
Keep your hand in the same position as step 2. Use the top part of your middle finger, the lower part of your index finger and the top part of thumb to perform as a lever. Keep your first chopstick in the original position. Push your middle finger, and the second chopstick will get close to the first chopstick. Loose the strength on the middle finger.
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